In anticipation of this weekend’s Surf Ranch Pro, SURFER editor-in-chief Todd Prodanovich wrote that making a speciality event, like the World Tour‘s first wave pool contest in 30 years, count toward a world title...

Some kind of power spike, some kind of programming glitch, the hydrofoil speeding at 10 times the recommended speed down the pool before spastically changing direction, back and forth, huge tsunami waves going in...